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Weekly Round-Up: From Boxing to Major League Dreidel Spinning
Future rabbi Yuri Foreman has become Israel's first boxing world champion. [via Forward]
Hundreds of people peacefully protested outside Sen. Joe Lieberman's Stamford, Connecticut home last Sunday to show their support...
Holocaust Victim Has 1,700 Friends on Facebook
A Polish historian named Piotr Buzek is using Facebook to increase Holocaust awareness. Buzek works for the Brama Grodzka Cultural Center in Lublin and created a profile for Henio Zytomirski,...
Israeli Woman Arrested for Wearing Prayer Shawl
An Israeli woman was arrested for wearing a prayer shawl while worshiping at the Kotel. Nofrat Frenkel, a 4th year medical student at Ben Gurion University, was attending a prayer...
Kosherface
Fredric Aranda has photographed the likes of HRH Prince Philip and Bill Clinton, but his most recent exhibition breaks away from GQ and Vanity Fair, where his photos so often...
Weekly Round-Up: From Anne Frank to Louis Armstrong
Every week I come across Jewish news stories that are interesting but ultimately don't make it into a full-fledged blog post. This always bothered me, but then this morning I...
Feeling Crafty? (Hanukkah Projects)
If you're a crafty person and looking for a Hanukkah project, Cheryl, our Needlepoint Guide, has some neat patterns to share with you:
Hanukkah Menorah Project
Dreidel Needlepoint Pattern
In the market for...
Too Sexy for JTS?
Rabbi Joanna Samuels recently wrote a blog post for The Forward that highlighted something unexpected about one of JTS's upcoming events: they are planning an "evening of fashion and passion"...
And Now For Something Completely Different
Because I just can't resist sharing two humorous bits that crossed my path this week:
Check out this YouTube video by Jewish doctor Mache Seibel, who raps about "Five Tips to...
Jewish Community Heroes - The Final Five
For the past 3 months the Jewish Community Heroes campaign has been highlighting the efforts of North American Jews who are committed to affecting their communities in positive ways -...
Oy, There Be Monsters!
In an effort to celebrate Halloween Hebrew style this year, Tablet Magazine asked comic book artist Mike Dubisch to create illustrations of the various beasts that appear in the Bible:...
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